(My Sportsbook) - The top-seeded San Jose Sharks have not resembled a team coming off the best regular season in franchise history. The eighth-seeded Anaheim Ducks, meanwhile, are looking like the club that won it all in 2007 and will try for a 3-0 series lead when they host the Sharks tonight at Honda Center in Game 4 of the best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinals.

The Sharks set franchise records this year in wins (53), points (117) and home victories (32) while also capturing the first Presidents' Trophy in team history.

However, San Jose was stifled on home ice in the opening two games of this series, scoring just two goals in getting beat by the defensive-minded Ducks in Games 1 and 2 at HP Pavilion. Anaheim's road victories come as a surprise to say the least, as the Sharks were the best home team during the regular season with a 32-5-4 record.

The Ducks, who will also host Game 4 on Thursday, were just 20-18-3 as the host this year and picked up two more victories on the road.

After winning Game 1 by a 2-0 score, the Ducks earned a 3-2 decision in Sunday's game at the Shark Tank. Jonas Hiller continued to frustrate the Sharks and three Ducks players pumped in the first playoff goal of their careers, as Anaheim held on to defeat San Jose in Game 2.

Hiller stopped 42-of-44 shots for Anaheim and has turned aside 77-of-79 shots so far in the first two playoff games of his career. The 27-year-old native of Switzerland supplanted Jean-Sebastien Giguere as the team's No. 1 goaltender over the course of the season. Giguere has an excellent track record in the playoffs as well, as he led the Ducks to the club's first-ever Stanley Cup crown in 2007 and also won the Conn Smythe Trophy when Anaheim lost to New Jersey in the 2003 Cup Finals.

Bobby Ryan, Andrew Ebbett and Drew Miller found the net for the Ducks in Game 2.

Ryane Clowe and Jonathan Cheechoo each had a goal for the Sharks, while Evgeni Nabokov turned away 23 shots in defeat.

The Sharks went 0-for-6 on the power play in the game and have yet to score a goal in this series on the man advantage, failing on all 12 opportunities. San Jose had the third-best power-play unit in the NHL during the regular season with a 24.2-percent success rate.

San Jose has suffered its share of playoff disappointments in recent years. After a conference finals loss to Calgary in 2004 the Sharks have been touted as perennial Cup favorites only to get knocked out in the conference semifinals in each of the last three seasons.

Only four players have reached the scoresheet for San Jose in this series and each of those skaters has a point. Patrick Marleau, who led the Sharks with 38 goals this year and was second on the team with 71 points, has yet to record a point.

The Ducks will be attempting to become just the eighth No. 8 team to defeat the top seed since 1994, something the Sharks have done twice in their history. The last club in the NHL to pull off the feat was Edmonton, which beat top-seeded Detroit in 1996. San Jose pulled off the upset against Detroit in 1994 and also did it against St. Louis in 2000.

San Jose, however, has never won a playoff series when falling behind two games to none.

The Sharks and Ducks split six meetings during the regular season and the all- time series between the clubs is tied at 41-41-8.

This series marks only the second time in league history that two California teams are meeting in the playoffs. The other was when the Los Angeles Kings beat the Oakland Seals in seven games in 1969.